Fletcher v. Kalina’s Empirical Analysis
93 F.3d 653 · 1996
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2014
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Malley v. Briggs · Imbler v. Pachtman · Forrester v. White · Burns v. Reed
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is a difference between the advocate's role in evaluating evidence and interviewing witnesses as he prepares for trial, ... and the detective's role in searching for the clues and corroboration that might give him probable cause to recommend that a suspect be arrested....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“absolutely immune from liability under section 1983 for their conduct in 'initiating a prosecution and in presenting the State's case' insofar as that conduct is 'intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be able to avoid liability by showing at trial that her conduct did not violate a clearly established right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.